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Response: The much-hyped Aamir Khan Production’s Delhi Belly has been doing well, opening to an average occupancy of 50-70 per cent in multiplexes in cities, and in some high-end cinemas, it even touched 80-85 per cent, piping Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Buddha Hoga Tera Baap substantially even though it is not for the 40 plus man. In single-screen theatres, the occupancy of adult comedy Delhi Belly was a poor 40 per cent.

Delhi Belly has bucked the recent trend with a box office earning of Rs 15.65 crore on its first two days.

Made at a budget of about Rs 25 crore, which includes print and publicity, the Imran Khan-starrer earned about Rs 7 crore on Friday and Rs 8.5 crore on Saturday.

Film type: Comedy

Cast: Imran Khan, Vir Das, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Shehnaz Treasurywala, Poorna Jagannathan and Vijay Raaz

Director: Abhinay Deo

Time of movie: 1 hour 35 minutes

Story: Tashi (played by Imran Khan), Arun (Vir Das) and Nitin (Kunaal Roy Kapur) are friends in Delhi Belly who share the same flat and later become stakeholders in a crime unwittingly. Tashi is set to get married in a month but is still unsure whether he is in love with his fiancée or not.

Arun is sandwiched between his girlfriend (who ultimately leaves him) and his pesky boss, who always tells him to alter his sketches in order to make them perfect. Meanwhile, Nitin discovers that eating delicious tandoori chicken from the street gives him a severe Delhi belly (stomach ache).

The trio finds it is on the hit list of a dreaded gang after a packet of diamonds given to Tashi’s fiancée and delivered by Arun reaches the wrong hands.

The diamonds have to be delivered to a gangster, played by Vijay Raaz, but after he fails to receive the diamonds, he targets the trio, who has no experience to tackle Delhi’s little-known underworld. So, can Tashi and his buddies escape from the clutches of the gangster?

Review: A sensational film by Aamir Khan Productions. Delhi Belly has become immensely popular, at least on the first two days, owing to the ingenious screenplay even though the story is mediocre.

Delhi Belly probably has been one of the few films with a litany of foul language to have been cleared by the film censor board.

While some may argue that the foul language and some nasty scenes such as the gangster dropping feces on a red handkerchief, thinking it to be diamonds, was in bad taste, Delhi Belly has definitely caught on with today’s youth, mainly those from an elite school background.

Basically, to judge how good or bad Delhi Belly is, will depend on which side of the line you’re on. If you can’t digest some crude and dirty humour, you’re probably going to come out disgusted but if you’re typically among the happy-go-lucky types, you will surely be enamoured by the humour.

Delhi Belly is typically not a film for the 40 plus.

Rating: 3/5